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History was made in communist Vietnam Friday evening. Christian sources reported that some 40,000 people gathered in a hastily constructed venue in Ho Chi Minh City to worship God, celebrate Christmas, and hear a gospel message – an event of unprecedented magnitude in Vietnam.
How will future generations learn about the conflict? The authors' book-length comic is one possibility. The Vietnam War still drags at us. Unlike the Civil War or World War II, we haven't figured out how to catalog it and put it away. It eludes definition; historians can't even make up their minds when it began and ended.
VIETNAM VETERANS of America, Jon Panarese Chapter 654 meets at 7 p.m. Dec. 15 at Britthaven of Jacksonville, White Street. SEASIDE LODGE No. 429 is holding a Stated Communication Dec. 14 at 7:30 p.m. for conducting the business of the lodge and the annual election of officers.
By Gary Green Correspondent The Del Webb's Spruce Creek Golf and Country Club Veterans Association is made up of generations of veterans of conflicts including WWII, Korea and Vietnam. Time and distance has not faded their memories.
When Mike Phillips returned from the Vietnam War early in 1971, society gave him a cold shoulder.
It was 1972, the Vietnam War was still raging, the Watergate scandal was beginning to unfold, Don McLean’s hit “American Pie” was playing on transistor radios across the land and a 13-year-old boy in Stockport found himself with a stolen American flag he was trying to keep from being burned.
Stanley Karnow, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and longtime foreign correspondent, is trying to think of a good title for a planned memoir. One candidate: "Interesting Times." Covering the war in Vietnam, from the first Americans killed, in 1959...
In what is now a Coast holiday tradition, wreath-laying ceremonies on Saturday were jointly held at the Biloxi National Cemetery and the Mississippi Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Ocean Springs.
OCEAN SPRINGS, MS (WLOX) - The Mississippi Vietnam Veterans Memorial Committee joined with Mississippi chapters of the Sons of the American Revolution and the Unobee Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution to conduct a Wreaths Across America Ceremony in Ocean Springs.
CROWN POINT | It has been almost 34 years since the end of theVietnam War, but it's not too late to tell those who fought"welcome home."
One veteran's group in Lackawanna County celebrated National Wreath Laying day by honoring a fallen hero, a Dunmore native who was the first woman and the first nurse to be killed in Vietnam more than 40 years ago.
A cluster of seven people have been infected with a Tamiflu-resistant strain of pandemic H1N1 influenza in Vietnam. The cases show the ability of Tamiflu-resistant pandemic H1N1 to spread among healthy people who are not taking the antiviral drug.
In a Vatican and Socialist Vietnam first ever, Pope Benedict met with President Nguyen Minh Triet Dec. 11.
The Dec. 6 article, “War recalls past conflict,” points out the parallel of our current involvement in Afghanistan and our involvement in Vietnam over 40 years ago.
Southeast Asia and Japan have endorsed plans to reduce transport pollution, especially on the region's congested roads, according to documents released after a two-day meeting in Vietnam.
It used to be one of my favorite anecdotes. It concerned a confrontation many years back between Henry Kissinger, then Secretary of State, and The Reverend William Coffin, then chaplain at Yale University. They were arguing over the U.S. involvement in Vietnam. The discussion was growing more and more heated until finally the Secretary said, "OK Bill, you tell me how to bring this war to an end ...
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